{"id":12028,"date":"2025-05-13T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=12028"},"modified":"2025-05-11T09:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T13:46:40","slug":"a-long-haul-near-death-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=12028","title":{"rendered":"A Long-haul Near Death Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">John Murphy: To Die is Not What I Thought It Would Be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, Long-haul COVID took me to another dimension. Twice, I almost died and both times experienced a separation from this physical world&#8211;Near Death.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past 5 years as a result of contracting COVID on January 15, 2020, I have been hospitalized 7 times, had 6 major surgeries (&amp; scheduled for another in September), am being treated by 14 Emory COVID specialists\/scientists, but most interesting I recently encountered a near death experience as a result of Long-haul COVID.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early April 2025 my Long COVID caused me to have trouble breathing.\u00a0 I was admitted via ambulance to Emory E.D.\u00a0 Because I wasn\u2019t breathing they placed me on a ventilator.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember anything after that.\u00a0 I was moved to a bed in the ICU and diagnosed with double pneumonia, RSV &amp; Influenza (all at the same time). I was on the vent for many hours and completely removed from the world. At some point while I was in the netherworld, I woke up in a Near Death Experience.\u00a0 I was no longer in my hospital room, but standing on the other side of a transparent barrier in a very white space.\u00a0 I could see and hear what was going on in the hospital room, but no matter how I tried I could not communicate with the living.\u00a0 In the room was a very white portal leading somewhere.\u00a0 I was aware of not being alive and very aware of being outside of normal time and space. There was a peacefulness and no fear whatsoever, but a frustration that I could see and hear what was going on in the ICU but unable to communicate with the living no matter how I tried. Since I couldn\u2019t communicate, I started to look around the white space that extended for a great distance, but before I could explore I felt the team pull my vent and woke up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using A.I.,  I developed a picture that shows what the NDE dimension looks like. I don\u2019t know where the portal would have taken me, but I am glad that I didn\u2019t have a chance to explore it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1024x632.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12033\" style=\"width:405px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1024x632.png 1024w, https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-200x124.png 200w, https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-768x474.png 768w, https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-324x200.png 324w, https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image.png 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to say that this event has forced me to rethink what it means to die and calls into question our understanding of life after death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Murphy: To Die is Not What I Thought It Would Be! 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